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10 Festive, Winter & Christmas Phrasal Verbs.

Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy. Today I’ve got a video for you. It’s a festive one as you can tell by my mistletoe jumper. It’s all about 10 festive idioms. No, they’re not idioms. 10 festive phrasal verbs.

If you’re not watching at Christmas time, don’t worry, these are phrasal verbs that can be used at any time of the year, but I thought it would be nice to give some festive context.

So, the first festive phrasal verb is to look forward to. To look forward to. And this means to be excited or pleased about something that is going to happen. So I am really looking forward to eating brussels sprouts on Christmas Day. If you don’t know what brussels sprouts are, they are tiny, green, cabbage-like things? And any day apart from Christmas, I find them disgusting.

But on Christmas Day, they are the most delicious thing known to mankind and I will eat hundreds of them. So yeah, I’m really looking forward to eating brussels sprouts. Number two: To put up. I have already put up all of my decorations. I have already put up all of my decorations.

To put up in this context means to fix something to a wall or to a post. So we put up our decorations. Number three: To put off. To put off. I regret putting off buying presents this year, because now tonight I have to go and buy them all. So in this context to put off means to postpone doing something that you don’t really want to do. I love buying presents if I already have a great idea. But this year, I’ve found it so difficult to think of things to buy people.

Normally, I have so many ideas, but this year, it’s been a bit busy and I found it really difficult, so I’ve put off buying the presents for days and days and days and now it’s literally my last chance. So after filming this video, I’m going Christmas shopping. To wrap up. Today, I’m going to talk about two meanings of “to wrap up”. The first one is the more obvious one. To wrap up presents.

To cover presents in paper. I always wrap my presents up, separable, in brown paper and white string, because I think it’s really traditional and I think there’s nothing more exciting than receiving a package that’s in brown paper.

Brown paper packages tied up with string. Lucy von Trap. The other meaning is to wrap up warm. To dress in warm clothes. That’s a very wintery phrasal verb. Every time I leave the house at the moment, it’s so cold, I have to wrap up warm in a coat and a scarf. Now number five, let’s talk about Christmas Eve, the 24th of December and the traditions that my family and I have.

On Christmas Eve, I like to go out. I like to go out. So I normally go out to the pub with all of my friends in my village. To go out, in this context, means to leave the house to attend a social event. My family, however, prefer to stay in. To stay in. They prefer to remain indoors. Number seven: To end up. So my friends and I, after going to the pub, we usually end up in another local town.

And this is the town where I went to school. To end up, in this context, means to finally be in a place or situation. We always start off in my village, but we end up in the neighbouring town. And that brings me on to my next point. Number eight: To bump into. To bump into. I always bump into people that I haven’t seen in 10 years.

People that I used to go to school with, I bump into them in this neighbouring town. To bump into somebody is to meet somebody that you know without expecting to meet them. And it’s one of my favourite traditions, because you see these people that you only see them once a year on Christmas Eve when you all go out to that town and then you don’t see each other for a year.

So, every year, we update each other. I remember two Christmases ago, I told a friend, “Yeah, I’ve started this YouTube channel,” and then the year after that, “Yeah, we hit 100,000 subscribers.” And then this year, I get to tell them all that it’s still going well. And I love hearing what they’re up to as well, because they’ve taken more traditional career paths and sometimes I feel quite envious (laughs). Now let’s move back to Christmas Day. Number nine is to fall out with.

And this is a Christmas tradition. It’s traditional to fall out with your family. Not really in my family, we get on quite well, but in general, people fall out. And to fall out with somebody is to fight, argue or disagree with somebody and then, for a period of time, be a little bit unfriendly. But don’t worry, its also a Christmas tradition to make up as well. So number 10 is to make up and to make up is to forgive each other and be friendly after a disagreement. Alright guys, those were the 10 phrasal verbs.